World Communication Design Day 2013 and Icograda 50 Anniversary

27 April 2013

On this occasion, Icograda invites designers from across the globe to reflect on the powerful force of community, which transcends borders and differences, bound by a common love and a passion for change, empowerment and creative leadership.

Montréal (Canada) – Continuing
the year-long celebration of its 50 anniversary, Icograda invites
members and all interested parties to participate in World Communication
Design Day 2013, by organizing public events and initiatives
celebrating the impact and importance of communication design.

To commemorate this momentous occasion, Icograda invites participants to develop projects around the theme ‘1Love1Word’ and join the global celebration on 27 April 2013.

This celebration was launched in 1991 as World Graphics Day, and since 2012, it
is known as World Communication Design Day. This global event is an
opportunity for designers to recognise communication design and its role
in the world, and to celebrate the birthday of Icograda, founded on 27 April 1963.

On this occasion, Icograda invites designers from across the globe to reflect on
the powerful force of community, which transcends borders and
differences, bound by a common love and a passion for change,
empowerment and creative leadership.

Theme: 1Love1Word

For 50 years, Icograda has been a place that designers can call home.

Serving
and promoting the importance of communication design in ever-changing
global climates, Icograda members, partners, friends and affiliates
remain committed to the vision and mission that inspired Icograda’s
foundation in 1963. Spanning five decades and all regions of the world,
the Icograda network has fostered collective achievement while
celebrating individual and regional growth: each year, each project,
each initiative and collaboration, each connection, each milestone,
converging in a common expression of a love for design and community.

‘1Love1Word’ captures the spirit of the Icograda family. It is…

multiplicity as a unity; finding congruity in difference and accord in divirgence

interplay between tradition and innovation; responsiveness to context and history

a cumulative, collaborative, pioneering drive for accessible and sustainable design

It is Icograda.

Suggested activitiesCommunication
Design is, at its core, a creative activity aimed to solve a problem
according to local context and audience. These suggestions are a point
of departure for the many unique solutions World Communication Design
Day may inspire.

organise a ‘designer hackathon’ around 27
April to bring together people from various disciplines – converging to
frame and solve local design problems

organise local talks/debates/lectures/presentations

open door studio tours

work with local governments to recognise World Communication Design Day and highlight the community impact of the profession

produce participatory communication design work celebrating the theme

Share your eventWorld
Communication Design Day is driven by our members. Share your event to
inspire others and spread the word about Communication Design:on Facebook:facebook.com/groups/icograda.wcdd Create an event in the group, or share your own event in the group discussion.on Twitter: use the #wcdd2013 hashtag when discussing your related eventson Instagram: use the #wcdd2013 hashtag when capturing images of your related events